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OSU Libraries’ Faculty Association April Seminar

OSU Libraries’ Faculty
Association is pleased to invite you to the April Library Faculty
Association Seminar Series. Hannah Rempel, Instruction and Science Librarian,
and Margaret Mellinger, Instruction and Emerging Technologies Librarian, both
at OSU Libraries, will present “Bibliographic Management Tools Adoption and
Use.”

Summary: Some of the most popular workshops offered in the Graduate
Student & Faculty Workshop Series at OSU Libraries are sessions on
bibliographic management software (EndNote, Zotero and Mendeley). While
those of us who teach these workshops are familiar with the software itself and
often help users troubleshoot issues, we don’t normally get to see how users
incorporate the tool into their regular research routines or how using the
software affects their research processes. We also miss out on an even more
basic question – how do users choose a particular tool and what makes them
stick with it? To find out more about how users incorporate these research
productivity tools into their workflows, we used interviews, journal prompts,
and user-recorded screen capture videos. We will discuss the results of this
study, a research methodology that can be used to gain a window into
researchers’ workflows, and a model for understanding how users adopt
productivity technologies.